Alternative Constellations for Celestia
Posted: 08.02.2011, 20:07
Hello all,
After doing some alternative Constellation implementations for Celestia in october/november last year, I worked in the past 2 months on the additional implementation of the Chinese Constellations and Indigenous Brazilian Constallations and added them to the "Alternative Constellations and Asterisms" add-on, which is now released on the Motherlode and can be downloaded from: http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/show_addon_details.php?addon_id=1524.
This Celestia Add-on contains the original and some alternative Constellations and Asterisms.
The Constellations are organized in different series and can be recognized by their series number added to the Constellation name, just to keep them apart from each other within the same file:
#1 Western (Wiki);
#2 Francais (Wiki);
#3 Polski (Wiki);
#4 Chandra;
#7 Chinese (Wiki and Activities of Exhibition and Education in Astronomy).
#8 Indigenous Brazilian Constellations.
Besides these series of Constellations, creative individual Constellations are also added and can be recognized by their series number #5 or #6 added to the Constellation name. There also are some recognizable Asterisms implemented by their own unique name.
The implemented Constellations are all documented with pictures, text files and references that accompany this add-on.
Because Celestia draws all defined Constellations and Asterisms in the 'asterisms.dat' file through each other, this Celestia Add-on also contains some CELX scripts, that can be used to individually show and/or clear specific (series of) Constellations and Asterisms.
Possibly in the near future there will be some enhancements to Celestia, to better organize series of Constellations, by keeping their original names, without #number extensions, but organize them by family/serie. Until then I suggest this implementation to further on develop this Add-on!
That also brings me to the next question to you readers and Celestia fans:
Can anyone help me to obtain further valuable documentation, downloads, websites, etc. for the implementation of other series of Constellations. Especially alternative cultures are very welcome at this stage (like the last Chinese and Indigenous Brazilian Constellations).
A bit of decoding pictures or documents must be possible of course to realize a valuable Celestia implementation. I think it should be nice, if we can implement multiple star pattern cultures in Celestia from here, so feel free to react on this thread to deliver that information, or mail me at: [url]marco.klunder@hccnet.nl[/url].
I hope you will enjoy this Add-on.
Marco
After doing some alternative Constellation implementations for Celestia in october/november last year, I worked in the past 2 months on the additional implementation of the Chinese Constellations and Indigenous Brazilian Constallations and added them to the "Alternative Constellations and Asterisms" add-on, which is now released on the Motherlode and can be downloaded from: http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/show_addon_details.php?addon_id=1524.
This Celestia Add-on contains the original and some alternative Constellations and Asterisms.
The Constellations are organized in different series and can be recognized by their series number added to the Constellation name, just to keep them apart from each other within the same file:
#1 Western (Wiki);
#2 Francais (Wiki);
#3 Polski (Wiki);
#4 Chandra;
#7 Chinese (Wiki and Activities of Exhibition and Education in Astronomy).
#8 Indigenous Brazilian Constellations.
Besides these series of Constellations, creative individual Constellations are also added and can be recognized by their series number #5 or #6 added to the Constellation name. There also are some recognizable Asterisms implemented by their own unique name.
The implemented Constellations are all documented with pictures, text files and references that accompany this add-on.
Because Celestia draws all defined Constellations and Asterisms in the 'asterisms.dat' file through each other, this Celestia Add-on also contains some CELX scripts, that can be used to individually show and/or clear specific (series of) Constellations and Asterisms.
Possibly in the near future there will be some enhancements to Celestia, to better organize series of Constellations, by keeping their original names, without #number extensions, but organize them by family/serie. Until then I suggest this implementation to further on develop this Add-on!
That also brings me to the next question to you readers and Celestia fans:
Can anyone help me to obtain further valuable documentation, downloads, websites, etc. for the implementation of other series of Constellations. Especially alternative cultures are very welcome at this stage (like the last Chinese and Indigenous Brazilian Constellations).
A bit of decoding pictures or documents must be possible of course to realize a valuable Celestia implementation. I think it should be nice, if we can implement multiple star pattern cultures in Celestia from here, so feel free to react on this thread to deliver that information, or mail me at: [url]marco.klunder@hccnet.nl[/url].
I hope you will enjoy this Add-on.
Marco